Stephanie

They are great, I love that yarn

Geopolitical turmoil in the Middle East once again shows that reliance on volatile oil and gas exposes economies to price shocks.

Renewables, electrification and storage offer more stable long term energy costs and stronger energy security.

“Friends, a spiritual life does not demand that we pretend the world is any better than it is; only that we do not miss how the world is often much better than we feel.”

- Nadia Bolz-Weber, on seeking and finding the good and beautiful during Lent.

Founders Online: Lund Washington to George Washington, 7 March 1776 Lund Washington to George Washington, 7 March 1776

7 MARCH 1776, MOUNT VERNON, VIRGINIA: George Washington’s steward Lund Washington writes to him of the impossibility of settling Washington’s West Virginia lands with only enslaved settlers under one white overseer: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...

I've used my London Lives datasets of 18th-century St Clement Danes pauper removal orders and settlement exams to make a new interactive map mindseye.sharonhoward.org/dashboards/cdr… #18thc

Three small yellow and orange narcissus flowers, they are all growing on the same stem

Triplet narcissus flowers! #Gardensky #GardenersWorld

A Dark-edged Bee-fly sat on a leaf, basking in sunshine - library photo by @kitenet.bsky.social

Bee-flies are go! A 1st #BeeFlyWatch record for 2026 is in, from east Surrey on 26 Feb. Look out for more during warm & sunny spells over coming weeks, & please send in sightings, via iRecord if possible. Full details on the @dipteristsforum.bsky.social website: dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

wow love those! I am properly geeky about footnotes and have strong opinions about the utter inferiority of endnotes.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed...This is not a way of life...it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

-Dwight Eisenhower 1953

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

6 MARCH 1776, BOSTON: “The firing has ceased this day”: the townspeople have been given their first night’s sleep since March 1 without continuous cannonfire. But that disturbance has been replaced with another frenzy:

Edited screenshot of a tweet by jon_snow_420: Anthropic: I have made AI angels: you fucked up a perfectly good spellchecker is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety.

A modern circle of hell, I hope you escape soon

#Rev250 #C18th 🗃

Great episode, really enjoyed that discussion. I have serious teapot envy! Would be perfect for holding a tea party on 16th December each year at Thomas Hutchinson's memorial at Croydon Minster, we could commemorate the Boston tea party *and* his house being ransacked in the stamp act riots

Today I want to talk about Jess’ Rule and Martha’s Rule, two new initiatives across NHS England that I think are really important and you should know about.
Tl;dr: if your symptoms are not improving or getting worse, at home or in hospital, you have the right and Drs the responsibility to review.

Glorious! I am watching the buds grow on the tree outside my house, eagerly awaiting the blossom

Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs

Favourite #WorldBookDay moment ...
Asked a hall full of children if any of them knew what a Dalek was ... girl RAN up to the stage and announced ... it's a small onion but strong. Cut it and you'll cry.

Me: .... thinking ...
Me: .. still thinking ...
Finally ...
... Garlic.

That really is bizarre, that music, like a trailer for an action film

#MorningPrayer
Open the ears of our
hearts, minds and souls,
Lord Jesus;
keep us ever-attentive
and ever-responsive
to your word, your wisdom,
your call, your challenge.
Let not the self-centred
desires and prejudices we have,
obscure the way you set before us.
May we follow you.

Press Association comment from Quakers in Britain This evening, for the second time in a year, the Metropolitan Police raided a Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists who were meeting there on the grounds that they were conspiring to commit a criminal act. The room in Westminster Quaker Meeting House was let to Take Back Power to hold nonviolent direct action training. Quakers support the principle of nonviolent direct action, which aims to protest without harming people. Oliver Robertson, head of witness and worship for Quakers in Britain, said: “For Quakers, faith and action are inseparable. Peaceful protest, prayer and nonviolent action are integral parts of many Quakers' religious life. “Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent. “That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government. The right to protest is fundamental to our democracy. It's a key part of how people make their voices heard between elections.”

Statement from @quaker.org.uk about tonight's police raid on Westminster Meeting House. Guys, I don't think they're buying the Met's line about it all being a cover for plotting "mass shoplifting"

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

I think you mean your cats

Two weeks today! Book your FREE ticket now: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Episode 4: The Boston Massacre by The Untitled History Podcast On the evening of the 5th of March 1770, a ragged volley of shots rang out on the streets of Boston, Massachusetts. That volley would change the history of the world. The incident, in which British tr...

It's the anniversary of the Boston Massacre!

So this week on the Untitled History Podcast, @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social and I break down the myths and reality of what happened. And why it became such a landmark moment in the American narrative.

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Naval Documents of the American Revolution

March 5, 1776: From the West Indies, Leeward Islands naval commander James Young reports an incident summing up France’s increasingly open unwillingness to help the British suppress the colonies’ surreptitious sea trade: 1/2

That was her intention all along, she definitely didn't fall

I'm going to research this but just wondering, when was it realised that WW1 was a "World War" and when was WW2 thought to be "another World War"?